On 12/16/2009 3:49 AM, Invisible wrote:
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> I'm thinking more about the following:
>
> 1. No sane person is going to pay money to run POV-Ray on Amazon when
> they could just run it locally on their own PC for free.

Who knows. Depending on the price, paying for some seriously parallel 
CPU time to get an animation done quickly may be worth it. Especially if 
that animation were extremely complex with groundbreaking (at least in 
the POV world) graphics, showing off what their favorite renderer would 
do. I mean ... how could would it be to have a feature film done 
entirely in POV? (Yes, It would be painful and arduous to do, but some 
people like doing things "Just because")

> 2. I have a vague recollection that attempting to do this contravines
> the POV-Ray license.

Sure, you could charge someone to run a renderfarm using POV-Ray as a 
renderer. You're charging for the compute time, not the program.



-- 
~Mike

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